Again the critical part for my situation was to add the -i origin/trunk (or –id). Without it it doesn’t know what SVN branch you want the properties off.

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All of this was shamelessly copied from http://john.albin.net/git/convert-subversion-to-git with some modifications to really make it work, because that post is a little outdated. Credits to John Albin.

It speaks about using the modesetting driver shipped with xorg instead of the xf86-video-intel driver. I did a benchmark with the xf86-video-intel and the modesetting driver to see which performs better in order to decide if I will drop xf86-video-intel. Here are the results:

Unigine-valley Basic preset @xf86-video-intel:

FPS:

14.4

Score:

604

Min FPS:

8.2

Max FPS:

33.1

Unigine-valley Basic preset @modesetting:

FPS:

23.5

Score:

984

Min FPS:

11.8

Max FPS:

40.3

It doesn’t really matter what hardware I’m using, all that matters is that the situation improved. But for reference: Intel HD Graphics 5500.

So my choice is simple, I’m ditching xf86-video-intel in favor of using modesetting, which was already installed on my system together with xorg-server.

backlight issue

because of the switch to modesetting driver the xbacklight utility does no longer work. Using a xorg config file with the Backlight option set to intel_backlight also does not work as a workaround. So I installed light-git (from the AUR) which allows me to control my laptop backlight once again.

Over the last three years I have made a lot of disk clones with clonezilla. I did this before reinstalling another OS or just to backup, but I always did it quickly. That means I just cloned the disk and never looked at it again. I only had to restore two or three times.

The problem is that because I did not really document anything about what is in the image, I now have no clue if I still want to keep image X or image Y. I need to see what is in the images…

So I’m restoring images by cat’ing together the compressed pieces of my images and decompressing them and piping that stream into partclone restore utility.

I have no clue what to do with that. So I downloaded an old version of clonezilla that contained the same version of partclone that the cloned image was made with. That gave the same error. Then I found an answer on askubuntu with zero rating. Just create the file first before you issued the partclone.restore. So to summarize:

I have been trying all day to set up SSH keys on a linux server and Windows 7 client, finally with succes.

The way I managed to finally do it is like this:

Log into your linux server

Type:

ssh-keygen -t dsa

Accept default filename

Provide a strong passphrase

The keygen will create two files: id_dsa.pub, and id_dsa. The first one is the public key (.pub), the second one it the private key, copy this to your Windows 7 client.

While stil on your server, now put the contents of id_dsa.pub into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Make sure you

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Now move to your Windows 7 client and run puttygen.exe

Load the id_dsa you have copied from the server

Enter the passphrase

Now use the save private key button to save the private key in putty .pkk format

Now open putty and go to: Connection » SSH » Auth and browse for the .pkk to use as private key

Now click open and you should be able to login into your server without the text: Server refused our key

If you followed the above and it still shows the text: Server refused our key, just read on…

Bonus steps that might solve your problem:

In your server console issue the command: hostname

Your hostname will be shown now, write it down or remember it

Now start putty and in the Host Name (or IP address) input field enter that hostname (I am assuming you have allready set up a working hostname)

With the .ppk selected as in step 11 press Open and you will be able to login without the text: Server refused our key

The first 13 steps are quite obvious, but it took me some time to notice that you really have to use the hostname. Before when I was just using a local IP address like 192.168.178.100 I could still login with putty, but the key would not be accepted, now that I’m using my hostname I can succesfully login on the server. There are a lot of tutorials like this one on the web, but none of them told me to use the hostname you have set up on your server!